Archive for the ‘zelda’ Category

Pretty much the best Wii case mod ever

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Filed under: Mods var digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gaming_news/Pretty_much_the_best_Wii_case_mod_ever’; Wouldn’t you agree? This mod, which we can’t get over just how impressive it is, was sent in by reader Jeremy. His friend created this beauty, which is sitting in Atlanta, GA as we type this, and seeks to sell ...

Nintendo team playing with Miis in Twilight Princess

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Filed under: News, Interviews During an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, MTV’s Stephen Totilo threw out a speculative question: Had Nintendo experimented with using Miis in Zelda: Twilight Princess? Miyamoto answered that, in fact, the developers at EAD had in fact been playing with that feature! After completing the game, the team ...

A very special Mega64 event

Monday, March 12th, 2007

Filed under: Fan stuff, Video Those lovable scamps from Mega64 are at it again! There’s never a dull moment when these friends go on a wild, madcap adventure that you‘ll never forget. Join them, as they discover… the true meaning of friendship. … what? Oh, we were thinking about a different movie. ...

IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS QUILT.

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Filed under: Fan stuff This quilt from Craftster member dishwasher182 combines two of our favorite things in life: The original Legend of Zelda and being warm while sleeping. We aren’t sure how we’d rank those two things. Maybe we should start quilting, so we can have our own enormous pixel-perfect Link ...

The best and worst so far

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Filed under: Reviews, Features We’ve had enough time now with the Wii to discover some real gems (how many hours have you put into just Wii Sports so far?) … but like any system, there are also a few duds, particularly within the launch window. If you’re looking to expand your ...

GDC 07: Twilight Princess, Wii Sports take awards

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Filed under: News The awards continue to pile up for Nintendo. Both Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Wii Sports have taken awards at the GDC Choice Awards. Twilight Princess nabbed a writing for Best Writing, beating out top contenders like Sam & Max, Oblivion, Dreamfall and Bully. Wii Sports picked up ...

GDC 07: Koji Kondo and the art of composing (sunnuva…you need to be more clear, Andrew)

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Filed under: News Koji Kondo; you might not know his name, but it’s doubtful you could even find a person within a thousand-mile radius who doesn’t know at least his culture-defining theme found in World 1-1 of Super Mario Bros. He’s behind the stirring themes of Zelda and Star Fox, and ...

Okami creator not so impressed with Twilight Princess

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Filed under: News During that same Media Arts Festival Yoot Saito demonstrated Odama with Wii controls at, the fellow responsible for directing Okami, Hideki Kamiya, talked a bit about Twilight Princess. His words, however, were not as one expects when someone is talking about Link’s latest adventure; words strung together in ...

Okami director not so impressed with Twilight Princess

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Filed under: News During that same Media Arts Festival Yoot Saito demonstrated Odama with Wii controls at, the fellow responsible for directing Okami, Hideki Kamiya, talked a bit about Twilight Princess. His words, however, were not as one expects when someone is talking about Link’s latest adventure; words strung together in ...

New from First 4 Figures: Sheik!

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Filed under: News, Fan stuff First 4 Figures have released another well-sculpted, detailed figurine of a Nintendo character. The new figure is the fourth entry in their series of N64-era Zelda characters, focusing on the mysterious, much-cooler-than-Link Sheik. Sheik stands about 9″ tall and is in scale with the other figurines in ...

Wear your love for Link

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Filed under: Fan stuff Around here, we find that blowing money on random game-related gear is a great way to celebrate the weekend, but we’re addicts like that. Considering that, it’s no surprise that the bevy of new Zelda-themed gear at Hot Topic caught our collective Fanboy eye. Zelda hats, hoodies, ...

Wii Warm Up: is 480p a problem with your GameCube games?

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Filed under: Features We’ve encountered a problem recently. See, we finished Twilight Princess a couple of weeks ago and we’ve declared it our favorite Legend of Zelda adventure of all time. But, just to be sure, we had to go back and play through Wind Waker again, which was our favorite ...

VC Monday Madness: post-game wrap-up 2/26/07

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Filed under: Reviews, Virtual Console Well, it’s that magical time of the week again where Wii owners get to download fresh digital data via the console’s Virtual Console service. This week we’ve only got three titles, however one is easily argued as being the greatest game ever made (damn you Water ...